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Visual explanations of mathematics (2020)
It is thought that Euclid wrote Elements in about 300 BC, but Oliver Byrne turned it into one of the true gems of visualization — and made it about 100 times more readable. By seamlessly combining typeset text (Caslon, if you’re interested) with minimalist geometric drawings in primary col
We’ve written about the subject before (for example, see Evan’s 2014 post, Graphics that repay careful study). A few years ago, in an attempt to broaden my geophysical knowledge, I bought a copy of Daniel Fleisch ’s book on Maxwell’s equations. Look at Randall Munroe’s annotation of a Wolfram Alpha equation (similar to an Excel formula) from his (wonderful) book, What If:
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